Speaker 1: The Lakers will hang a banner tonight to commemorate winning
Speaker 1: the NBA's inaugural in season tournament. But should they should
Speaker 1: they hang that banner? The latest as well with Draymond
Speaker 1: Green and his indefinite suspension. The latest with Draymond Green
Speaker 1: and the Warriors and they look Back, and another one
Speaker 1: of last week's major headlines in the NBA game ballgate
Speaker 1: in Milwaukee. We dive into all of that next here
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Speaker 1: be a good one. Hey, everyone, welcome in to the
Speaker 1: latest edition of This League Uncut. Chris Haynes and I
Speaker 1: recording late on Sunday night after a wild week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tease the end because this crazy social media post
Speaker 1: cross my desk today that featured some Chris Haynes gaudy
Speaker 1: stats from a game. So we're gonna end with that.
Speaker 1: I just want to tease that at the beginning because
Speaker 1: we need some We're gonna need some explanations on that
Speaker 1: but look, so much happened this past week, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to even get to it all. Like
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia we saw Darryl Morey get a contract extension
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty seven to twenty eight. The Sun's Big
Speaker 1: three finally played a game together, but it was only
Speaker 1: one game, and then Bradley Beale goes out of the
Speaker 1: lineup again with an unfortunate ankle twist, and now he'll
Speaker 1: be out a few weeks at least. Cleveland loses both
Speaker 1: Darius Garland and Evan Moe to long term injuries. Luka, Doncic,
Speaker 1: Joel Andbi throwing up crazy stats. December fifteenth has come
Speaker 1: and gone. That means trade season is officially here, and
Speaker 1: I will soon be on my way to Orlando for
Speaker 1: the G League Showcase, and so we will be talking
Speaker 1: more and more about trade matters, I'm sure after I
Speaker 1: hit the ground in Central Florida, because the whole league
Speaker 1: will be not the whole league, but a good amount,
Speaker 1: a very large amount of front office executives from all
Speaker 1: over the league will be at the showcase, which we
Speaker 1: really do see and regard the G League Showcase now
Speaker 1: as the NBA's answer to the winter meetings. Not really
Speaker 1: in terms of deal activity. You can't say that the
Speaker 1: amount of trade action in December and January matches what
Speaker 1: we see in baseball, but in terms of getting the
Speaker 1: whole league in one place and to get face to
Speaker 1: face discussion going, so you know, we'll have a lot
Speaker 1: more to come from there. I'm still shocked though, that
Speaker 1: Chris Haynes will not be joining me in Central Florida
Speaker 1: after he and I spent a summer together there in
Speaker 1: the Bubble in twenty twenty. I am going back. Chris
Speaker 1: is not. We'll get to that later too. So among
Speaker 1: the many, many, many news items that surfaced last week
Speaker 1: was official confirmation from the Lakers that they are indeed
Speaker 1: hoisting a banner to the rafters of Crypto dot Com
Speaker 1: Arena to commemorate winning the NBA's inaugural in season tournament.
Speaker 1: And last week we did a pod before that announcement
Speaker 1: and then we did our interview with Magic coach Jamal Moseley.
Speaker 1: So we really haven't had a chance to talk about this.
Speaker 1: Chris and you and I were together in Dallas for
Speaker 1: the lakers first game after the n Season Tournament, after
Speaker 1: they were crowned NBA Cup champions in Las Vegas, so
Speaker 1: we both had a chance to talk to various people
Speaker 1: with the organization about this, because I like, I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a pretty noisy thing tonight.
Speaker 1: Like I think when the Lakers actually hold this ceremony
Speaker 1: and we see this banner and we reported together, actually
Speaker 1: the banner is going to be different. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a different color than the typical championship banner, and
Speaker 1: the Lakers have said that they're only going to if
Speaker 1: they are fortunate enough to win the n season tournament
Speaker 1: in the future, They're just going to put future years
Speaker 1: on the same banner. So they're clearly trying to make
Speaker 1: this banner look like something different, not to the level
Speaker 1: of a full on championship banner. But I still think
Speaker 1: there will be people screaming that the Lakers shouldn't be
Speaker 1: doing this. And if I remember right, I kind of
Speaker 1: got that vibe that you you weren't sure yourself if
Speaker 1: the Lakers should do this? Am I putting words in
Speaker 1: your mouth? Third? Do I have that right?
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty accurate. I wasn't
Speaker 2: sure they would do it, But I know the league
Speaker 2: really wanted any team who won the Ncason Tournament. I
Speaker 2: know they wanted they wanted the team to do something
Speaker 2: to kind of say that this is a big deal.
Speaker 2: So I know the Lakers had a little bit of pressure.
Speaker 2: I don't know to what extent, but I know the
Speaker 2: Lakers felt a little bit of pressure to try to
Speaker 2: do something. But Stein, I feel like this was the
Speaker 2: best case scenario for the Lakers because the Lakers, remember
Speaker 2: we talked about this before. The Lakers, Boston Celtics, the
Speaker 2: Miami Heat, those teams, they're trying to win championships. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not about division banners. It's not all about the
Speaker 2: n Season Tournament banner. We're trying to win championships. But
Speaker 2: this does set the precedent, and I think this is
Speaker 2: a This is a great idea. Whoever came up with
Speaker 2: it to put up a banner. It's not going to
Speaker 2: be the same size. You're gonna be able to tell
Speaker 2: that it is different from the championship banners, right, different colors,
Speaker 2: and then if they win other banners in the future,
Speaker 2: they're just gonna add dates. That is perfect. That way
Speaker 2: is only one banner. Now, Stein, had this been the
Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers who won, they probably would have had a
Speaker 2: one individual, probably big size banner up there. And if
Speaker 2: they won another one, they probably would have put it,
Speaker 2: probably put another banner up there. And so I think
Speaker 2: with Lakers doing this, I think this kind of sets
Speaker 2: precedent because say the Pacers win next season's end season tournament,
Speaker 2: can you really put a full banner up there, and
Speaker 2: you know, and don't go with the format of adding
Speaker 2: more dates if you win another this is a tournament
Speaker 2: in the future. I think this this kind of sets
Speaker 2: the president, and I think other teams should follow suit
Speaker 2: with this. But it's a great idea. It's not gonna
Speaker 2: get too chaotic up there with the Raptors putting all
Speaker 2: these banners up there. It's gonna be one banner and
Speaker 2: you just add in future dates. I think it's a
Speaker 2: great idea and I think it was a great compromise.
Speaker 1: Well, every team should do whatever they want in my view,
Speaker 1: So look if the.
Speaker 2: Lakers looks putin Stan, I hear what you're saying, every
Speaker 2: team should do what they want. But that looks weak.
Speaker 2: It looks weak. Stan. The Lakers put up a small
Speaker 2: banner and with room to add future dates and then
Speaker 2: another team the next year puts it up in this
Speaker 2: big banner, like you really want a championship, Like, come
Speaker 2: on now, that that looks really weak, that looks really
Speaker 2: weak and uncompetitive, and that doesn't that's not a good look.
Speaker 2: So we'll soon.
Speaker 1: Let's just say the Pacers do win it next year,
Speaker 1: or the Grizzlies, or the Suns or the Timberwolves, you know,
Speaker 1: a team that has yet to win an NBA championship,
Speaker 1: I would expect them to hang a full fledged banner
Speaker 1: because I think that really is one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why Adam Silver so badly wanted this tournament. Yes, we
Speaker 1: know that the NBA would love, love, love to be
Speaker 1: able to sell the nd season tournament as a separate
Speaker 1: property to a media partner. That to me is you know,
Speaker 1: they're not going to admit it, but that's ambition number one.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that one of the more pure
Speaker 1: motivations here for the league was to create a second
Speaker 1: prize that Okay, it's not gonna be on par with
Speaker 1: a championship, but it is going to be something teams
Speaker 1: covet and teams want to win because you know, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of teams out there that are not
Speaker 1: the Lakers. And if they win the division title, they're
Speaker 1: proud of that and they're gonna hang that banner. And
Speaker 1: if they just get to the NBA Finals and lose,
Speaker 1: they're going to hang a conference championship banner. And if
Speaker 1: they win the NBA Cup, they're gonna hang a banner.
Speaker 1: But see, to me, the Lakers, it would have been
Speaker 1: a huge slap in the league's face if they didn't
Speaker 1: do what they've come up with. And I just I
Speaker 1: really I didn't. I never thought that's what would happen
Speaker 1: the Lakers. You know, Genie Buss has an excellent relationship
Speaker 1: with Adam Silver, and I just don't think that she would,
Speaker 1: you know, say no, we're not gonna do anything. We're
Speaker 1: just we're gonna have a little pregame clap and that's it.
Speaker 1: You know. It's good to me that for this thing
Speaker 1: to have a chance to be what the league wants
Speaker 1: it to be. It's good that the Lakers are taking
Speaker 1: it to this level of seriousness.
Speaker 2: To me, well, the size of a banner is not
Speaker 2: going to derail or diminish the significance of the n
Speaker 2: season tournaments. Don So it's not going to Derail Adam
Speaker 2: Silver for But.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is there are people out there, and
Speaker 1: you will hear them screaming later tonight that the Lakers
Speaker 1: shouldn't even put up this banner that they're going to
Speaker 1: put up. We haven't seen it yet with our don't
Speaker 1: I have.
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't talked to people and ask them
Speaker 2: this question directly within the Lakers, but just the sets
Speaker 2: that I've gotten, if this was truly up to the
Speaker 2: Lakers with no pressure, I don't think a banner is
Speaker 2: up there. I don't. I really do feel like this
Speaker 2: is the And again I'm saying field, I haven't spoken
Speaker 2: to anybody, just based off of the people I know
Speaker 2: within that organization, the field is that I believe that
Speaker 2: they're just being a good partner. They understand the league
Speaker 2: wants to implement this n season tournament, have it be
Speaker 2: a great package, you know, TV rights and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: So they're they're they're they're they're being a good partner.
Speaker 2: I think that's what's happening. And I don't think just
Speaker 2: because a banner is smaller or it sets the Lakers
Speaker 2: are set setting the precedent. I don't think that's going
Speaker 2: to derail Adam Silver from being able to add a
Speaker 2: add that package into the new TV rights deal. But
Speaker 2: you know, I do, I do. I like the idea,
Speaker 2: I really do, And I still again, I'm not stin
Speaker 2: these last twenty something years we're been in the participation trophy.
Speaker 2: That's what That's what we've been in the last twenty
Speaker 2: so years, participation trophy. And I'm not putting this n
Speaker 2: Season Tournament in that field. What I am saying was,
Speaker 2: when you were a champion, you're the champion you are.
Speaker 2: You've won the highest award within your league, within your competition.
Speaker 2: That should always be held in high regard, period high regard.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you a question. Stan, say the
Speaker 2: Memphis Grizzlies won the n Season Tournament. Okay, they won
Speaker 2: n Season Tournament and then they just completely just bomb
Speaker 2: the rest of the year, the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: They are ten and seventy two. Would they consider that
Speaker 2: or would you or anybody else consider their season to
Speaker 2: be a success.
Speaker 1: No, but I do think it's banner worthy. Now, should
Speaker 1: they get rings?
Speaker 2: Should?
Speaker 1: Should they get rings? No? Should they have a parade? No?
Speaker 1: But should you hoist a banner for winning the NBA Cup?
Speaker 1: If the NBA Cup is going to become what the
Speaker 1: league wants it to become, which is the second biggest
Speaker 1: prize available to its thirty teams and eventually thirty two teams,
Speaker 1: if and when we get the expansion that we expect,
Speaker 1: If the NBA Cup is ever going to be that,
Speaker 1: it has to at least be banner worthy.
Speaker 2: To me, it is bannerworthy, just not the same size
Speaker 2: as the real championship banners. That's all. Is banner worthy.
Speaker 1: Well, look, we don't know. We don't know how the
Speaker 1: next champion will treat it. Sorry, Ryan three two one.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet how the next champion will treat it.
Speaker 1: But that will be a fun thing to see because,
Speaker 1: like I said, had the Pacers won this, you know
Speaker 1: it's all speculative because they have not given a definitive
Speaker 1: statement on it, even though I tried to get one
Speaker 1: when I had Rick Carlisle on my radio show the
Speaker 1: morning of the n Season Tournament championship game in Vegas,
Speaker 1: but he wouldn't play ball with me on that one.
Speaker 1: You we'll see how the next champion handles it. But
Speaker 1: you know, the Indiana Pacers who've won three ABA titles
Speaker 1: but none in the NBA. I suspect they would have
Speaker 1: hung a pretty prominent and easy to spot banner in
Speaker 1: their fieldhouse. But you know, we're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: a year to see how that goes. But like I said,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm really interested to see Monday night, what the
Speaker 1: online reaction is, what the end the building reaction is,
Speaker 1: how the players reactors again, no rings. You know, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a pregame ceremony or halftime ceremony, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know how excited Lebron and Ad will be.
Speaker 1: But look I did get you know, I did have
Speaker 1: a chance. I asked Darvin Ham and I asked Anthony Davis,
Speaker 1: and they both said they were very glad that a
Speaker 1: banner of some sort is going up. So were they
Speaker 1: just you know, were they just being gentlemen? We'll find out.
Speaker 2: Stin, I want to see the placement while the Laker's
Speaker 2: gonna tuck it like in the.
Speaker 1: Corner underneath underneath.
Speaker 2: Placement is important, So I want to see what A're
Speaker 2: gonna position this batter here and the Clippers again, that's
Speaker 2: just one more thing for them to you know, hi,
Speaker 2: you know what it's time for them, you know, what
Speaker 2: it's time for them to be the home court resident.
Speaker 2: That's just another poster they got to ask. So you know,
Speaker 2: you make me we should send.
Speaker 1: We should send for since since Producer Ryan is in
Speaker 1: the greater Los Angeles area, we should really send him
Speaker 1: to the game as our representative to take some notes
Speaker 1: and get get good answers to all these questions.
Speaker 2: That will require Producer Ryan to go straight from his
Speaker 2: job with the working with the cow herd the man himself,
Speaker 2: and going straight to the arena. That's that's given him overtime.
Speaker 2: Ryan works too hard, he has too much on his play.
Speaker 2: We can't we cannot ask him to do that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's not so gracefully shift gears here to
Speaker 1: what was the story of the week. Amid all those
Speaker 1: things that I've already listed, and I even forgot as
Speaker 1: I was going through the list of crazy stuff that
Speaker 1: happened last week, you know, we also had Jalen Brunson
Speaker 1: going to Phoenix and putting up a fifty point performance,
Speaker 1: the first fifty point game of his career, as Jalen
Speaker 1: Brunson makes his bid to break through in the East
Speaker 1: and earn his first All Star appearance. However, the Draymond
Speaker 1: Green suspension and indefinite suspension, it really looms and lords
Speaker 1: over the entire league. When the suspension was announced last
Speaker 1: Wednesday night, the Warriors had nine games left in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. The league is calling this an indefinite suspension.
Speaker 1: They're doing it on purpose. They're trying to get us
Speaker 1: away from trying to focus on how many games it
Speaker 1: will last. And this approach, to some degree, certainly mutes
Speaker 1: the discussion about is it too long, is it too short?
Speaker 1: It kind of quiets down that smoldery reaction that would
Speaker 1: have happened Thursday morning no matter what they announced. But look,
Speaker 1: this is my unofficial forecast. I want to stress unofficial,
Speaker 1: because you know, the league is insisting that it doesn't
Speaker 1: have any kind of timescale. There's no secret timetable, that
Speaker 1: it's just not withholding from us. But I just have
Speaker 1: to think it's hard for me to imagine that we
Speaker 1: would see Draymond Green back on the floor before twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Again, there were nine games left in this
Speaker 1: calendar year when the suspension was announced. Just to me,
Speaker 1: it's got to be at least ten games to have
Speaker 1: any real validity and credibility in terms of trying to
Speaker 1: get Draymond Green away from the daily madness, to try
Speaker 1: to move on from this thing and just comport himself
Speaker 1: in a much better manner. And you know, ten games
Speaker 1: would be double what we saw for the choke hold
Speaker 1: that he applied to Minnesota is Rudy Gobert. But let
Speaker 1: me ask you, the Chris Haynes view, look into your
Speaker 1: crystal ball and tell me what you think. How soon
Speaker 1: or not so soon do you think it will be
Speaker 1: before we see Draymond Green back for the Warriors.
Speaker 2: I think you made a very astute point there when
Speaker 2: you said that the NBA made its decision but and
Speaker 2: called it indefinitely. Calling him out indefinitely, it cleared them
Speaker 2: of any reaction, any backlash, good or bad. It cleared
Speaker 2: them of that matter of fact. Now it postponed it.
Speaker 2: It postponed it. It's a delay. It's going to come.
Speaker 2: But I think so say say in their minds ten
Speaker 2: games is the amount of games that they want him out,
Speaker 2: But they don't want to come out and say that
Speaker 2: publicly right now, because again, there would be some backlash.
Speaker 2: I think people might say it it's not enough. Could
Speaker 2: if you consider his history, but say ten games is
Speaker 2: the number they have in mind. So I think the
Speaker 2: the longer this plays out. So you let these games
Speaker 2: go by, let these games go by, and the Warriors
Speaker 2: they are struggling, they are struggling. The Warriors are they're
Speaker 2: they're they're in. You know, it's it's not looking good.
Speaker 2: So you know, when you're struggling and these games kind
Speaker 2: of go by, it seems longer than what it really
Speaker 2: is because you're just going through so much hell, losing,
Speaker 2: losing in different ways, different fashion. So I think around
Speaker 2: the game eight, nine or ten, say, if the Warriors
Speaker 2: are struggling, and it's just been the commentary about them
Speaker 2: struggling and the need to have Draymond, they really need Draymond,
Speaker 2: they really need Draymond. Then you get to the point
Speaker 2: where fans from other teams are starting to say, man, dang,
Speaker 2: Dremond has been going a wild the Warriors have lost
Speaker 2: seven in a row, you know, something like that. Then
Speaker 2: I think they could kind of read the room talking
Speaker 2: about the league. They can read the room and say,
Speaker 2: you know what, if he's if we let him back now,
Speaker 2: I think I think it will be okay because everybody's
Speaker 2: seeing the Warriors struggling. It seems like it's been a
Speaker 2: long time. I think we'll be better off letting them
Speaker 2: play right now. So I don't know if that's what
Speaker 2: they're doing, but I know I really just feel like,
Speaker 2: you know, with with Adam Silver being in in charge,
Speaker 2: you know, David David Stern, you know, he was he
Speaker 2: was hard with the punishment, and I think people at
Speaker 2: being a little bit confused just with the consistency of suspensions,
Speaker 2: the amount that is and uh that that's that's something
Speaker 2: that you know, I think Adam Silver Joe do more
Speaker 2: as that's that they would have to answer to because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, like are they going
Speaker 2: to release I don't believe they're gonna do this unless
Speaker 2: it leaks from Draymond's side. But what is going to
Speaker 2: be a list of requirements to complete in order to
Speaker 2: get back on on task? I was gonna get back
Speaker 2: on the court. I was told that Draymond will still
Speaker 2: be allowed to practice with the Warriors during this time.
Speaker 2: Will the Warriors say no, Draymond, stay away, go get go,
Speaker 2: get your work done first. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: think Steve Currz addressed that, but I don't know Star.
Speaker 2: It's uh, it's puzzled a little bit. I see what.
Speaker 2: I see why they did it, but uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know. He's not going to be
Speaker 2: back before twenty twenty four for sure. That's that's the
Speaker 2: only thing I do know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And look, it's just you know, how much even
Speaker 1: if he is away ten games, even if he is
Speaker 1: away fifteen games, how realistic is it for Draymond Green
Speaker 1: to change when Draymond Green has repeatedly told us he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to change and this is who he is,
Speaker 1: and he's insistent that he knows how to manage himself.
Speaker 1: But look, I think it's pretty clear if you've listened
Speaker 1: to this show that I mean, you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: Draymond Green fan. I really hope he can figure this out,
Speaker 1: and when we do see him back on the floor
Speaker 1: that he has, you know, more of an ability like
Speaker 1: again to change. I mean, is he really going to change?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's possible. Can he can he
Speaker 1: walk his own personal in game tightrope better than he has?
Speaker 1: I hope so for his sake, because I just feel
Speaker 1: like at this point he's damaging his legacy. Yo, whether
Speaker 1: you are a Draymond Green fan or not, there is
Speaker 1: no denying that he has been an absolutely rev illusionary
Speaker 1: defensive player and one of the greatest keys to small
Speaker 1: ball success. As a small ball practitioner for the Warriors,
Speaker 1: he's been revolutionary with the stuff he can do offensively
Speaker 1: and defensively. And the reality is, so much has happened
Speaker 1: in this last year, starting with the Jordan Poole punch,
Speaker 1: and then the soccer style stamp on Demonte Sabonis, and
Speaker 1: then the choke hold on Rudy Gobert and now this
Speaker 1: incident with Yusuf Nurkic. Nobody's talking about his winning qualities,
Speaker 1: nobody's talking about the ways he's changed the game. It's
Speaker 1: gotten to know the Draymond Green transgressions in the last year,
Speaker 1: they've gotten to an untenable place. And the Warriors, Stephen Curry,
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr, others in the organization have always backed him,
Speaker 1: and the reason is because he's been an integral part
Speaker 1: of four, not one, four championship teams. Steve Kerr will
Speaker 1: tell you over and over the Warriors don't win any
Speaker 1: of their titles without him. But he's gotta now figure
Speaker 1: out a way to stay on the floor and not
Speaker 1: get involved in these situations. I mean, these are these
Speaker 1: are more than this is more than technical fouls and
Speaker 1: flagrant fouls. These are you know, this last year it's
Speaker 1: just been way too much.
Speaker 2: And again, you know, I talk about consistency from the league.
Speaker 2: Remember Draymond Green was not officially penalized for punching his
Speaker 2: teammate last year. He was not suspended by the league,
Speaker 2: and you can make the case that that incident was
Speaker 2: probably the most brutal of all the incidents. He took
Speaker 2: a few weeks off from practice. I believe you missed
Speaker 2: what missed some preseason games, but he was there available
Speaker 2: before open at night to receive his reign. So you
Speaker 2: know how, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's that's the Warriors culpability in this.
Speaker 1: They he can't you know they that punishment was like
Speaker 1: a week or so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But should the league have stepped in an issue
Speaker 2: the punishment?
Speaker 1: That's interesting, I wonder, you know, and the next time
Speaker 1: we get with Adam Silver, I hope someone asked that
Speaker 1: question because the league. No, you have to wonder does
Speaker 1: the league now regret not doing more then? Because what
Speaker 1: we've seen since it again, it's just too much. And
Speaker 1: you know you mentioned the Warriors struggling as you and
Speaker 1: I are recording this, they are trying to hang on
Speaker 1: and put this game away in Portland, which would give
Speaker 1: them a second straight win, a badly needed second straight
Speaker 1: win to get to twelve and fourteen. But now with
Speaker 1: Draymond Green out of the lineup for X amount of time,
Speaker 1: we don't know how much longer, but he's already missed.
Speaker 1: This is the seventh game this season he will have
Speaker 1: missed through suspension, and he's been ejected three times, so
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of unavailability, and it just the
Speaker 1: question just keeps coming up. Now, is this it? Is
Speaker 1: it over? Is the dynasty officially over? Do we dare
Speaker 1: make that declaration? Now? I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: in our business have been afraid to do it because
Speaker 1: it was just eighteen or so months ago that the
Speaker 1: Warriors went on title run number four, when none of
Speaker 1: us know it all is we're forecasting that. But you
Speaker 1: know what I'm not personally, I don't find myself so
Speaker 1: hung up on the is it over question? Because it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be over. This is this is year ten.
Speaker 1: If we start the clock with that first Champmionship team
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, fifteen, and like it's not supposed to
Speaker 1: go for a decade, and there's so much discussion, how
Speaker 1: about what should the Warriors do? What trade should they make?
Speaker 1: They're not one trade away from fixing this team, because
Speaker 1: Draymond Green is just one of the many problems that
Speaker 1: the Warriors are looking at right now. And you know,
Speaker 1: for all to talk about Draymond and his availability and
Speaker 1: all the talk about Klay Thompson's early struggles, you know,
Speaker 1: the Andrew Wiggins regression, the Andrew Wiggins situation. To me,
Speaker 1: that might actually be Golden State's foremost problem at this
Speaker 1: point because here's Wiggins twenty eight in year one of
Speaker 1: a four year, one hundred and nine million dollar contract
Speaker 1: that he got because he was such a difference maker
Speaker 1: in that title run two seasons ago, and he's just
Speaker 1: been benched. He's out of the starting lineup now. So
Speaker 1: I mean they are I mean in their current state.
Speaker 1: To me, they are not a trade away from being
Speaker 1: back among the Western Conference elite. They got a zillion
Speaker 1: things to figure out in the Bay Area. So getting
Speaker 1: Draymond Green back, that's that's just one thing to me
Speaker 1: on a long to do list. Now, this story that
Speaker 1: we move on to is of a far more frivolous nature.
Speaker 1: But man, this is another story that got NBA Twitter superheated.
Speaker 1: And look, I'm still confused by exactly what happened. I
Speaker 1: don't know which I still don't know which ball Jannis
Speaker 1: Antetokumpo has in his possession. But he scores sixty four
Speaker 1: points at home against the Pacers. Thirty two trips to
Speaker 1: the line in that game. No threes for Yannis in
Speaker 1: that game. I think you got to go back. C
Speaker 1: got almost twenty five years for a player to score
Speaker 1: sixty without a three. I think I think Shaq was
Speaker 1: the last one to do it, and it was forever ago.
Speaker 1: But I think most people probably know the story. You know,
Speaker 1: Jannie went ballistic after the game because he thought the
Speaker 1: Pacers swiped the game ball. And I know that well,
Speaker 1: no one I know knows the Bucks as well as you.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna turn it over to you and
Speaker 1: ask you. Now that we're removed from this by a
Speaker 1: couple of days. And by the way, the Warriors did
Speaker 1: hang on and get that win in Portland, their second
Speaker 1: straight win to go to twelve and fourteen. But now
Speaker 1: that we're a little bit removed from game Ballgate as
Speaker 1: people are calling it, what can you explain this whole
Speaker 1: Yannis Pacers thing? These I think the only one thing
Speaker 1: I do know these which this part's nice. These teams
Speaker 1: do not like each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I like. That's the point. I like
Speaker 2: the fact that they don't like each other. That would
Speaker 2: be a really good and entertaining series should they meet
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. But stan Stein, go and say, before
Speaker 2: I jump in with what I think people are missing
Speaker 2: from the gate with this whatever you want to call
Speaker 2: this ballgate, explain what Carl Carlis said, Explain his rationale
Speaker 2: or reasoning for taking the ball. Then I will jump
Speaker 2: in with what I think people are completely missing from
Speaker 2: all of this.
Speaker 1: All right, So, based on what I could gather in
Speaker 1: full candor, I have to say that I have not
Speaker 1: studied this all as closely as some I know worldwide.
Speaker 1: Wobb did one of his famous what does he call
Speaker 1: him web investigations with video, and my fellow substacker Scott Agnes,
Speaker 1: had a great story on his substack Fieldhouse Files about
Speaker 1: how all the balls have numbers and so it should
Speaker 1: be easy to figure out which one Yiannis had. But
Speaker 1: basically the game ends and it looked like a Bucks
Speaker 1: official grabbed the game ball, but the Bucks were saying
Speaker 1: the Pacers had it, and Rick Carlile after the game
Speaker 1: came out and said, no, we were not trying to
Speaker 1: keep the ball away. We were not trying to keep
Speaker 1: the game ball away from Janis Antetokumpo after he had
Speaker 1: just scored a career high sixty four points. No, the
Speaker 1: Pacers claim was that they were simply trying to get
Speaker 1: the game ball because PACER's rookie Oscar shebwe recorded his
Speaker 1: first NBA point from the free throw line in the
Speaker 1: same game. So Rick Carlyle went to the podium and said,
Speaker 1: there was no malice intended towards Giannis. The Pacers simply
Speaker 1: wanted to get the ball for Oscar Shebweh. And again,
Speaker 1: like I said, when you watch the video, it's it
Speaker 1: sure looks like it's a Bucks official who had the
Speaker 1: ball first. And we know there are at least two
Speaker 1: game balls for every game. And then Giannis came out
Speaker 1: and said he has a game ball, but he's not
Speaker 1: sure if it's the one that he actually scored all
Speaker 1: the points within the second half because it quote feels
Speaker 1: different to him. So, like I said, I've done enough talking.
Speaker 1: Please shed some Chris Hayneses clarity on this because I'm
Speaker 1: still confused.
Speaker 2: Man. Okay, let's talk about the game ball. First of all,
Speaker 2: there's only one game ball, and there are usually two
Speaker 2: reserve balls in case the game ball gets damaged, it
Speaker 2: gets wet. Then you go to the scores today. They
Speaker 2: usually keep these other two balls behind the scorers table.
Speaker 2: But there's only one game ball unless another ball actually
Speaker 2: gets on the court and it's played. So it's only
Speaker 2: one game ball, period. That's it. I want to just
Speaker 2: clarify that. The other thing that I think people are
Speaker 2: missing from this whole thing. And I understand what Carl,
Speaker 2: I understand what the Pacers we're doing, and I respect
Speaker 2: their pettiness. I really do. I respect their pettiness.
Speaker 1: So you're not.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all, not at all. What
Speaker 2: really happened was they were ticked off that the Bucks
Speaker 2: left Giannis in the game to get that sixty four brick.
Speaker 2: Carliut pulled his starters around a five minute mark. I
Speaker 2: think it was closer to the six minute mark. And
Speaker 2: the Bucks, you know, left their starters in. And it
Speaker 2: wasn't like they left their starters in to just play, No,
Speaker 2: they left their starters in to get Giannis more points.
Speaker 2: Nobody else was shooting the ball. That's what the Pacers
Speaker 2: had a problem with. Now, when coach Griffin did pull
Speaker 2: he eventually did pull his starters out, and the Pacers
Speaker 2: bench made a run and which caused Giannis and everybody
Speaker 2: else to get back in there to make sure they
Speaker 2: officially closed it. But the main problem, main issue was
Speaker 2: that they had with the Bucks were that they kept
Speaker 2: their starters in a little bit too long. That's why
Speaker 2: that's why we had this whole post game drop. But
Speaker 2: that's why we had that. It was not to get
Speaker 2: Oscar his his you know, I went so so stein,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm I'm I'm putting the news out as
Speaker 2: I as I get it live that night, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like I'm tweeting, I'm tweeting all the
Speaker 2: updates I'm getting. I'm getting quotes from what the coaches
Speaker 2: were telling the players about why they're keeping this ball
Speaker 2: and they were and you know, and I was told
Speaker 2: this was before rook Carlile said it publicly, but I
Speaker 2: was told the Pacers were saying like they're they're they're
Speaker 2: keeping the ball because their rookie scored his first basket,
Speaker 2: and that's all the information I had. So stein, I'm
Speaker 2: getting on my laptop quick, like okay, who's this rookie?
Speaker 2: Who's this rookie? And I'm looking and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: I see one rookie, but he didn't score phield goal
Speaker 2: and I'm like, he scored one free throw. I'm like this,
Speaker 2: this is the rookie they talking about because they never
Speaker 2: gave me a name, and so I started looking at
Speaker 2: the rookies game log and then I noticed I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: this can't be true because this rookie scored one free
Speaker 2: throw again against the Lakers in the ND Season Tournament
Speaker 2: and I'm like, this can't be true. Like this don't
Speaker 2: make sense, you know what I mean. Then I realized, okay,
Speaker 2: hold on, that N Season Tournament championship game did not
Speaker 2: count towards the stats, towards the regular season stats, and
Speaker 2: so I was kind of hesitant on even putting the
Speaker 2: Oscar's name out there because I'm just like, this cannot
Speaker 2: be the line that they're using, right, now, but they did,
Speaker 2: you know, minutes later, you know, I put my report
Speaker 2: out and then Carlos a few minutes later came out
Speaker 2: and said it publicly. You know, they were indeed trying
Speaker 2: to give the ball to Oscar, who made one free throw.
Speaker 2: But again, the whole reason why they went down this
Speaker 2: hole because they didn't approve of how to Buck handled
Speaker 2: the minute distribution down the stretch of the game, a
Speaker 2: game in which the Bucks. They felt like the Bucks
Speaker 2: clearly had the game one. That is what people are missing.
Speaker 2: It's not about Oscar, it's not about Yannis. Well, it
Speaker 2: is about Yiannis. But you know, they did not like
Speaker 2: the way Adrian Griffin kept his starters here. They felt
Speaker 2: like the Asian Griffin kept his starters in there too
Speaker 2: long and which disrespected them. So in return, they were
Speaker 2: gonna disrespect them back. And that was the most petty
Speaker 2: way to do it. You're in bill Waukee and you say,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take the ball away from the guy who
Speaker 2: just scored a franchise record sixty four points. But this
Speaker 2: is something we always do in Indiana. I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: go give it to somebody a rookie who scored his
Speaker 2: first basket. I'm going to give it to a rookie
Speaker 2: who made one free throw. That's what he did.
Speaker 1: Can I ask the person, can I ask a personal
Speaker 1: selfish favor. Now that we're a few days move from this,
Speaker 1: can you check with your extensive network of bucks sources
Speaker 1: and find out, like, so, is Giannis andy clear? Does
Speaker 1: he have? Does he have what? Or? No? Maybe the
Speaker 1: better question which ball does he have? The Scott Agnes
Speaker 1: story on Fieldhouse Files says that all of these balls
Speaker 1: have a serial number on it, so we should be
Speaker 1: able to figure out which which one Yiannis actually has. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to note.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now and later on I'll
Speaker 2: tell a story about this. If you give me forty
Speaker 2: five seconds. I have a NBA Finals game ball in
Speaker 2: my closet. This is the game ball from the Warriors Raptors. Now,
Speaker 2: when I say game ball, remember I tell tell people
Speaker 2: there there are usually two reserved balls behind the scores table,
Speaker 2: just in case the game ball gets damaged somehow. So
Speaker 2: I have one of those balls. I have one of
Speaker 2: those two balls.
Speaker 1: Which is story and which is a story.
Speaker 2: It is a story in itself, and I you know, and.
Speaker 1: I got to see you're saving that one for the
Speaker 1: book though, right.
Speaker 2: No, no, I don't know. I don't know if that'll
Speaker 2: make the book. That might be that might be of
Speaker 2: this league uncut why not they want to hear it.
Speaker 2: But I have one of I have one of the balls,
Speaker 2: and so let me go get it. Give me forty
Speaker 2: five seconds. I want to see if it has a
Speaker 2: serial number. But one more thing I want to.
Speaker 1: Add before I know the problem is.
Speaker 2: That that's that's the same that that was the last
Speaker 2: I believe that was the last year they used as Spalding.
Speaker 2: But shouldn't it still? Yeah? It should It's okay, give
Speaker 2: me forty five seconds. So stein as you see here
Speaker 2: NBA official official game ball the NBA, and you see
Speaker 2: right there it has two thousand, twenty nineteen NBA Finals
Speaker 2: subscribed on the basketball. Again, this is one of the
Speaker 2: three well excuse me, this is one of the two
Speaker 2: NBA reserve balls that they keep behind the scores table
Speaker 2: just in case the official just in case the game
Speaker 2: ball gets damaged somehow during the course of the game.
Speaker 2: So now let's look on. I'm looking on this bad boy,
Speaker 2: I'm looking all around. I do not see I do
Speaker 2: not see any numbers at all on this basketball. This
Speaker 2: is twenty nineteen. I'm looking all around stein, no serial code, nothing.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe it's a new policy that started when Wilson
Speaker 1: took over.
Speaker 2: Okay, that could be a possibility. This is a Spaulding.
Speaker 2: I believe this was the last year that a Spaulding
Speaker 2: ball was the official game ball. Again, this was the
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen NBA Finals Golden State Warriors Toronto Raptors. The
Speaker 2: actually the last game when Toronto won and Golden State
Speaker 2: whatever game that was? So yes, six game six yep.
Speaker 2: So yeah, nothing, no numbers on this basketball. But again,
Speaker 2: there's only one game ball. Now, if they ended up
Speaker 2: giving Oscar another ball, it's not the game ball, it's
Speaker 2: the reserve ball. There's a difference. Game ball is the
Speaker 2: ball you played with during the course of the game.
Speaker 2: But again, I think that was just the boat that
Speaker 2: was completely missed. It wasn't about Oscar, it wasn't about Giannis.
Speaker 2: It was about the Bucks feeling like the Bucks kept
Speaker 2: their starters in too long.
Speaker 1: Well, as you mentioned earlier, it'd be great to see
Speaker 1: these teams meet up in the playoffs. They will play
Speaker 1: a two game baseball series to start twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: January first and January third, two Pacer Bucks rematches in
Speaker 1: a row, And like I said, I hope that. I
Speaker 1: hope we can figure out And man, this is crazy
Speaker 1: that that Warriors Blazers game I mentioned the first time
Speaker 1: in two hundred and sixty nine games. Mm hmm, Stephan
Speaker 1: Curry does not sink a three pointer. Oh for eight
Speaker 1: for Steph on threes as we're recording on this Sunday night.
Speaker 1: But the Warriors managed to pull out their second straight
Speaker 1: win regardless. But yeah, like I would love if again,
Speaker 1: if I can dial in this personal favor that you
Speaker 1: kind of check back with these guys one more time
Speaker 1: to find out, like which what which bald with a
Speaker 1: little bit of distance in time, which bald does Giannis
Speaker 1: actually think he has? He said he was gonna give
Speaker 1: it to his mom. So which bal did he give
Speaker 1: to his mom? Yeah?
Speaker 2: He said didn't feel like the game ball, That's what
Speaker 2: he said. Was last one. He said, I played with
Speaker 2: thirty thirty five minutes. I know what a ball a
Speaker 2: ball feels like if you've been playing with that ball
Speaker 2: for that that amount of.
Speaker 1: Time, especially when you take thirty two free throws.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know he holds on to the ball
Speaker 2: a long time. With free throws, he would well a.
Speaker 1: Week, what a week this was. There's a reason we
Speaker 1: call it hashtag this league. You know what. We're going
Speaker 1: to end on an even lighter note than game Ballgate,
Speaker 1: although this also I do want to seek some explanation
Speaker 1: and clarification justification from you, because I'm still not even
Speaker 1: sure how this blipped onto my radar. But I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a social media post from the TUMACBO Rec League
Speaker 1: in Sacramento, and this post, which is actually very well done,
Speaker 1: a very nice post. Got a team picture here and
Speaker 1: it says player of the game twenty seven points, seven dimes,
Speaker 1: thirteen rebounds, Chris Haynes. This apparently happened today, eighty nine
Speaker 1: seventy seven win. And yeah, I guess, I guess. You know,
Speaker 1: Producer Ryan I think is trying to connect with the
Speaker 1: Elias Sports Bureau right now to see where this ranks
Speaker 1: in terms of career achievements for you. But you really,
Speaker 1: so you really went for twenty seven, seven and thirteen
Speaker 1: in this rec league game today?
Speaker 2: With this today, well probably this was yesterday. We'll probably
Speaker 2: have to call another participant total. I'll make it one call.
Speaker 2: Let me, let me make this call on air. Hold on,
Speaker 2: let me make this one call to get this to
Speaker 2: get this right here, Mike, I got you on you
Speaker 2: on my podcast. You're live on my podcast right now.
Speaker 2: So my my, my whole, my podcast host, my co
Speaker 2: host Mark Stein. He somehow, I don't know how he
Speaker 2: got a hold of it, but he got a hold of,
Speaker 2: uh my latest game stats from my last game yesterday
Speaker 2: in the league. My stat line says twenty seven points,
Speaker 2: seven assists, thirteen rebounds, and he wants to know if
Speaker 2: these stats are manufactured. Mike, So can you please answer him?
Speaker 1: Manufactured?
Speaker 2: In what way? All these fake stats? Mike? Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: they're not fake.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, he was killing.
Speaker 2: He's laughing.
Speaker 1: He's laughing.
Speaker 2: Oh man, but I appreciate you set the record straight.
Speaker 2: First of all, give give you give me your ig
Speaker 2: handle again. He makes he does pop up shots. Make
Speaker 2: some of the best Filipino food and Sacramento in the
Speaker 2: Bay Area. Give me a shout out, Mike, Mike j
Speaker 2: underscore a dobo king.
Speaker 1: Okay, appreciate you, bro, Thanks for the info. Mike.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks man, there you have it, Stein, no
Speaker 2: fake news here. This is a Filipino league. So I
Speaker 2: appreciate my Filipino brothers allow me to join their league
Speaker 2: and we have every Saturday. And with this win yesterday,
Speaker 2: we advanced to the final four, which will happen next Saturday.
Speaker 2: So if we win our tam.
Speaker 1: Wait it says your team is one in five, this
Speaker 1: was your first win.
Speaker 2: But I have explanation. I have explanation, have explanation for you.
Speaker 2: So this graphic shows that we're one and five and
Speaker 2: we beat a team that's four and two. I missed
Speaker 2: the last three games because I was out of town,
Speaker 2: but there was a couple of games as well that
Speaker 2: were canceled because the gym that we use had a
Speaker 2: leak in it. So they just they kind of scrapped
Speaker 2: the last few games of the regular season and say, hey,
Speaker 2: these games, these last three games are going to matter,
Speaker 2: and so we were able to get a few wins
Speaker 2: when it really mattered. Now we're in the final four.
Speaker 2: And yes, and I told you, Stein, I don't play
Speaker 2: when it comes to my stats. This is a post.
Speaker 2: This is a social media graphic from the commissioner of
Speaker 2: this great Filipino League himself, and he creates this every
Speaker 2: week and has a player of the game have their stats,
Speaker 2: and they they take you know, they keep track of everything. Man,
Speaker 2: it's really impressive. We got jerseys, you see, we all
Speaker 2: got jersey with our name on the back. You know,
Speaker 2: I think I'm only brother. It's about two of us, man, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm no. Three. There's three brothers in this whole league.
Speaker 2: It's an eight team league. Three brothers in this whole.
Speaker 1: Why are you number fifteen? Why do you wear fifteen? Story?
Speaker 2: Great? Great, great, that's a great question. Stein. So Stein,
Speaker 2: I'm in this league on Saturday, and I'm in another
Speaker 2: league on Sundays. This is an adult league like thirty
Speaker 2: and up, and that Sunday league. I wear eight this league.
Speaker 2: What do you gotta wear fifteen? Growing up, my favorite
Speaker 2: player was Latrelle's free will. He wore number fifteen for
Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors, and he wore eight with the
Speaker 2: New York Knicks. So eight and fifteen growing up was
Speaker 2: always my favorite numbers.
Speaker 1: That is good. Did you get to where it? Did
Speaker 1: you get to wear either fifteen or eight in college?
Speaker 2: No? I couldn't. The best players got to wear those numbers.
Speaker 2: No I had. I had forty four and like forty two.
Speaker 2: I had those high numbers here, high numbers in high school,
Speaker 2: in college, so though I didn't get to let bra water.
Speaker 2: But Stean, I was telling you, Man, I was telling
Speaker 2: you this whole time.
Speaker 1: More equals eight and four times too equals eight? Is
Speaker 1: that why you had?
Speaker 2: That's the There you go, star, you did the math
Speaker 2: if it works. But Stian I was telling you. I
Speaker 2: was telling producer Ryan how I've been. I've been killing
Speaker 2: in these leagues. I've been telling you, and you thought
Speaker 2: I was lying. You thought, Oh, I told you I'm
Speaker 2: in pretty good shape. I go Stein, I cook out there.
Speaker 2: And this post doesn't prove.
Speaker 1: This post doesn't have a field goal attempts, so we
Speaker 1: don't know how you actually shot it to get those
Speaker 1: twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Stott, you see, you see, you see, you see my
Speaker 2: height compared to my teammates.
Speaker 1: Stein was a highly What you're saying is you were
Speaker 1: this as a highly efficient twenty seven Exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: I don't need I don't need thirty shots to get
Speaker 2: twenty seven points in this league style. You know, I
Speaker 2: just need some help. I need help, and I think
Speaker 2: I got the help. We need. I don't know if
Speaker 2: we're favorites going into Saturday morning's game, but I like
Speaker 2: our chances. We're on the roll. We're on a one
Speaker 2: game winning streak, and Stein, if we win Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: we play in the championship game that same day at noon.
Speaker 2: So I'm highly motivated. I'll be going to the gym
Speaker 2: three about three times this week to get prepared, get
Speaker 2: my teammates prepared, and I'm sending them texts every day,
Speaker 2: just keeping them motivated.
Speaker 1: Yea twenty seven, seven and thirteen. I want to see
Speaker 1: three more dimes? Can you get a triple double?
Speaker 2: Well, if the game calls for us, Stein, if the
Speaker 2: game calls for it. But sometimes you got to be
Speaker 2: you know, my team needs me to go, they need
Speaker 2: me to go and score, and sometimes I have to
Speaker 2: do that. And I can do the good thing about
Speaker 2: my game, Stean, I can do whatever the game is
Speaker 2: called for. And so that's what that's what it was
Speaker 2: called for that day. It may be forty ten and
Speaker 2: ten Saturday, we'll have to see.
Speaker 1: Well, look, we can promise you in forthcoming podcasts, there
Speaker 1: will be lots of trade season discussion. As I said,
Speaker 1: I am en route to the G League showcase in Orlando.
Speaker 1: So trade season is going to be a big part
Speaker 1: of this podcast from now through the February eighth trade deadline.
Speaker 1: But I also can promise you there will be further
Speaker 1: updates of Chris Haynes's Sacramento rec League exploits because now
Speaker 1: we've we got to see if he can live up
Speaker 1: to all this talk.
Speaker 2: Stin, I'm gonna say this, man, it just came. It
Speaker 2: just came to my head right now. I might go
Speaker 2: live during my game. I might set my I might
Speaker 2: have somebody. I might put my phone up on a
Speaker 2: tripod and have somebody just following the game, and I
Speaker 2: might just go live IG live. That might be an
Speaker 2: ig live type of opportunity, so you can see and
Speaker 2: watch what I do.
Speaker 1: First, bringing back the media game that was so popular.
Speaker 1: How many years ago is that now? Four?
Speaker 2: That that was? That was actually when I got this ball, Starn,
Speaker 2: that was twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: And how you got this ball? We're gonna be getting
Speaker 1: a call from the league office, guys, we your podcast.
Speaker 1: What is this ball that Chris Hayes is talking about
Speaker 1: from the twenty.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't take the game ball from Kawhi Littard. No,
Speaker 2: it wasn't. He didn't. He didn't get no record that night,
Speaker 2: so it was safe to take this ball. But I
Speaker 2: got this on good authority. I'm clean.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we answered some of your questions on this edition
Speaker 1: of This League Uncut. I grant you that we have
Speaker 1: probably raised a few more unanswered questions that we will
Speaker 1: with time if you show us just a little more patience.
Speaker 1: If you stay patient with us, we will eventually gradually
Speaker 1: answer those new questions we've raised as well. Great to
Speaker 1: be with you again, mister Haynes. I don't know when
Speaker 1: we will be together again in person. We were only
Speaker 1: together briefly this past week in Dallas. Not sure again
Speaker 1: where we're gonna cross pass, but hopefully we see each
Speaker 1: other in person again soon. We will definitely get together
Speaker 1: electronically again soon for another edition of This League Uncut.
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